TRUST, BUT VERIFY: How Do You Know What To Trust?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

🚨BREAKING: A Gallup poll shows just 31% of Americans trust the media to report “fully, accurately, and fairly.” pic.twitter.com/4BRblBkEpF

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 4, 2025

HINT — NOT SUPERMAN, NOT EVEN SUPERGIRL. BUT SUPER ANYWAY [VIP]: Look! Up in The Sky Candy!

MORE FROM THE WORLD OF MAD GENIUS CLUB: Relearning to Write, Now With Tomatoes Episode 2.

This is turning into a series.

KNOWING THE ANSWER BEFORE KNOWING THE QUESTION: Legacy Media: Trump MUST Be Wrong.

PJ MANAGING EDITOR TAKES A KNEE: Paula Bolyard, our long-suffering Managing Editor at PJ Media, is having a knee replaced tomorrow. (Make that Thursday. What day is it anyway.) Being both a writer and a CrossFit devotee, she will of course be writing about it at her Substack Paula Bolyard—CrossFit, Conservatism, and Christianity.

Catch her there. Is should be easy, she won’t be able to run very fast.

As long as I’m here, I’m sure she’d like me to let you know there is a 60 percent off special through tomorrow for VIP membership at PJ Media, which among other things entitles you to our paid VIP content like my Sky Candy series. Use promo code FIGHT. Make Paula happy.

IT’S RELATIVITY, THAT’S THE TICKET: Friday Sky Candy on Sunday This Week — By Jove.

By the way, this was impeded in part because I finally moved into my own place and have concluded my rescue from Costa Rica and I just want to thank everyone who contributed.

SOMEONE NEEDS A LESSON IN MULTICULTURALISM: UPS driver doesn’t like mezuzahs.

Hey @UPS, your driver that just dropped off a package at our house pulled our mezuzah off its nails and threw it to the ground.

This is despicable, & even more so that it's HANNUKAH right now. Why won't you work with me and the Delray police to identify the perp? 😲😲

— Toni Airaksinen (@Toni_Airaksinen) December 28, 2024

INTERESTING TIMES: What Are Russia and China Thinking?

AMATEUR ASTRONOMER DO GOOD WORK TOO [VIP]: Sky Candy Among The Amateurs.

FROM A MAD GENIUS: Relearning to Write — with Tomatoes – Part one.

BEWARE THE PINK CLOUD [VIP]: You Didn’t Think It Was Going to Be That Easy.

ANOTHER GANGSTER PARADISE: Interesting Times: The Syria Sednaya Prison

DON’T GO AWAY MAD. JUST GO AWAY: Kamala, Remenber Dan Quayle?

PLANETS I PROMISED, PLANETS YOU GET. LOTS AND LOTS OF PLANETS [VIP]:Sky Candy and the Planets: It’s Complicated.

WHAT IF THEY’RE ACTUALLY DOING WHAT THEY THINK WE WANT? Memo to Elon and Vivek: What Are The Incentives That Drive Inefficient Government?

CLEANUP ON AISLE DAMASCUS: Interesting Times: Assad’s Gestapo Didn’t Clean Up Before They Fled.

THIS WEEK’S SKY CANDY IS ALL ABOUT THE PRETTY STUFF [VIP]: Sky Candy: Just The Sweets.

Sorry, forgot to mark it.

HOW TO BECOME A WRITER. AGAIN:The Problem With Inspiration

This is at Sarah Hoyt’s Mad Genius Club, a worthy blog for anyone interested in writing.

THE BEST THING IN ASTRONOMY RECENTLY IS WHAT WE CAN’T SEE [VIP]: Sky Candy: What You See Depends On How You See.

[VIP] DOES THE GOVERNMENT KNOW WHAT IT’S DOING? A Memo to Messieurs Musk and Ramaswamy.

SPECIAL STARSHIP EDITION: Friday Sky Candy.

Yeah, it’s VIP, I forgot.

I did title it Sky Candy. Just got it wrong here. I’ve got to have a talk with the editor…

WE LIVE IN ROBERT HEINLEIN’S WORLD: Elon Musk Wants to Save the World — and More.

ITS A PUZZLEMENT: Undersea Cables and Natural Gas Pipelines: A Bunch of Odd Coincidences in the Baltic

AFTER ANOTHER PEACEFUL REVOLUTION: We Are Living in Interesting Times.

A LESSON FOR EVERYONE[VIP]:What Government CAN’T Do IS As Important As What It CAN